Back up (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Back up

His back is up, i.e. he is offended or angry; an expression or idea taken from a cat; that animal, when angry, always raising its back. An allusion also sometimes used to jeer a crooked man; as, So, Sir, I see somebody has offended you, for your back is up.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Backed * Bacon

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes

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